Burning Amp is a day-long celebration of many hours spent designing, building, tweaking, and ultimately listening to music with home-brew audio electronics. The diyaudio community is global, but they choose to meet in San Francisco. Last Sunday was the day. Read more about Burning Amp 2018 …

I had the pleasure of being invited to dinner the other day by friends we have known for almost 20 years. Among their guests was a person with whom I had real difficulty communicating. The chief difficulty was that he seemed so certain of all his opinions, that there seemed to be little room for discussion. The situation was perhaps more difficult because we disagree on many important issues.

Ignorance is always with us. There was a time when an educated person in Europe could pretty much know everything that was considered important (by Europeans). Part of this education was the â€œGrand Tourâ€ -Â an extended journey around Europe and the Mediterranean to see ancient sites, visit libraries and galleries, and revisit the classic Greek and Roman texts. Read more about General Ignorance …

I came across this (thanks, Stephanie!) this afternoon: it’s a group of people who get together to explore home-made musical instruments, many of them combinations of mechanical and electrical or electronic components. Some of them are played in conventional ways, some make music under computer control, and some combine multiple techniques.Â What’s nice about thisRead more about Music is more than…[…]